Lot 5003

Description

Decentius as Caesar, (351-352 A.D.), AE 22 (centenionalis), Lyons Mint, (4.91 g), obv. Around D N DECENTIVS NOB CAES, bare headed bust of Decentius to right, cuirassed; rev. VICTORIAE DD NN AVG ET CAE around, in exergue R S L G, above star over S V, Two Victories facing one another, holding between them a wreath inscribed VOT/V/MVLT/X, (S.18882, RIC 134); another, (352-353 A.D.), AE 29 (double centenionalis), Trier (Treveri) Mint, (6.92 g), obv. Around D N DECENTI VS FORT CAES, bare headed bust of Decentius to right, draped and cuirassed; rev. SALVS DD NN AVG ET CAES around, in exergue T R P, Chi-Rho, flanked by A and **W*, (S.18856, RIC 319), (illustrated). Nearly very fine, last rare. (2)

Ex Dr V.J.A. Flynn Collection and previously from Noble Numismatics Sale 107 (lot 3993) and also coming from an old Hungarian collection.